The Times Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
MONARCH VISITING SKYE, PERHAPS, BACK IN CASTLE ELSINORE
Online magazine keeps running commercial ECONOMIC
LEADING, AND WINNING BY THIS MARGIN? AHEAD
PRESSURE BY CHIEF BARRISTER PRESENTING CASE PLEADER
OPENS MOUTH, BUT RUNS OUT OF FRUIT GAPES
A BIT DEPRESSED, HAVING INFLAMMATION WHITLOW
The French forward is wearing old lady's slip MALAPROPISM
Summon up gripping excerpt of heavenly event ECLIPTIC
STUFF IN VACUOUS POLICY PAPERS IS A WONDER PYRAMID
University opens a study for poet AUDEN
Agreeing place for plug on the radio IN SYNC
An entertaining banker's nickname AGNOMEN
Bee wings in August flutter BAT
Big bird, head hidden in fear TITANIC
Disavowals from radical or a centrist RETRACTIONS
Display burden on one vehicle AIR TAXI
Dressed down in the past, Conservative kept out of sight CHIDDEN
Drive into Split, fencing off some land rear-end
Figure's appeal, eating junk STATUE
Give some relief to setter rejected by editor? EMBOSS
Historian, no end of social climber IVY
Outline of waist, flipping round figure TWO
Place to learn mawkishness, a thing of legend UNICORN
Put pins around seat covers tailor's edging STRADDLE
Risk screening for one key film THE GREAT ESCAPE
Ship's cook? STEAMER
Untidy woman in low bar was first to drink litres DISHEVELLED
Who and what, say, could produce tergiversation interrogatives
Given a role, still on the field IN PLAY
Communist rejected by town DERBY
Charm of mummy’s bed MASCOT
Bung soldier up into position SPIGOT
Blossom beginning to fall down FLOWER
Hotel is extraordinarily unfriendly HOSTILE
Judging is exasperating TRYING
Large fish seen in Gibraltar pond TARPON
Maybe phrase looks wrong on page PERHAPS
Stop running and stand in the market STALL
Son has a nasty argument: he may be suited here SAVILE ROW
Party food is cold? Not entirely DISCO
Packed, to be on the safe side IN CASE
Not so bad, I’ll wager BETTER
MEAT COOKING IN OVENS VENISON
DRY PERIOD QUICKLY OVER SEC
Dancers lie at first in bed, pectorals rippling CORPS DE BALLET
Rubbish a true novel writer LITTERATEUR
Roughly treated a cold — a virus right in a bodily system CARDIOVASCULAR
People following old lady in bleak, poor state BANANA REPUBLIC
Make cryptic once out of French ENCODE
Such a comic not suitable for sitcom? stand-up
Tomb’s dreadful curse — help! SEPULCHRE
Cleaner, one in tears after reprimands CARPET SWEEPER